Rokas Kostiuskevicius – who won the 1st Junior Wolrd Championship in last year – won the 18th Hot Air Balloon Championship in Wloclawek, Poland. His father, Rimas Kostiuskevicius got the silver medal and Ivan Ayala got the bronse medal who had the silver medal in the last European Championship.

The winners 18th Hot Air Balloon Championship

The veryyoung Dominic Berford finished on the 4th place, who know his family name well. Other results:

1

17

Rokas KOSTIUSKEVICIUS

LTU

14036

2

18

Rimas KOSTIUSKEVICIUS

LTU

13876

3

2

Ivan AYALA ALCALDE

ESP

13705

4

52

Dominic BAREFORD

GBR

13679

5

1

Stefan ZEBERLI

SUI

13305

6

71

Peter OLSSON

SWE

12989

7

30

Bartosz NOWAKOWSKI

POL

12764

8

13

Uwe SCHNEIDER

GER

12749

9

47

Christoffer MUNDT

DEN

12536

10

29

Ivan MENYAYLO

RUS

12509

…

31

39

David LINEK

CZE

10225

…

34

41

Petr KUBICEK

CZE

10114

…

37

42

Michael SUCHY

CZE

9489

38

68

Janos KONECSNI

HUN

9395

…

54

40

Pavel KOSTRHUN

CZE

8222

55

69

Peter NAGY

HUN

8192

…

76

70

Sandor VEGH

HUN

5475

We had 5 flights and 18 tasks. The Event start with nice weather but the Autumn arrived after with fog and rain.
A short video about the by Tóth László.

The European Championship started yesterday with a boring long General Briefing. The 2nd European Championship run with the CIA loggers but without a big advantage. The director, Mathijs R. De Bruijn decided to use GPS altitude instead of baromeric. The second surprise was no 2D just 3D scoring only. A pilot mentioned on the General Briefing:

“They are forcing pilots to fly in windy conditions in area with many powerlines as low as possible. This is not about pilot skills, this is very, very unsafe. I have no idea why we cannot have 2D scoring.”

Me personaly don’t understand why they step back in the time. These loggers are worked very well on many Events in different countries with different scoring software and scorers.

I start to use the FAI loggers at very beginning and never had any problem. We didn’t have any issue with the loggers during the Czech Nationals a month ago too and I’m sure the FAI loggers are working well!

I’m participate here with my Czech freinds as the team manager.

We got a spectacular Opening Ceremony after the General Briefing with dancers and airshow without welcome drink and food.

MdB set three tasks today morning: HWZ, HWZ and JDG. It happened little bit windy condition but most of the pilots could reach the MMAs. The provisional results are available here. The afternoon briefing is cancelled because the rainy and windy condition.

Nice sunrise before the first flight

The weather forecast promise the next flight for tomorrow morning. Let’s hope the best.